#A View Toward M106

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[world-beauty]

A View Toward M106

Credits: Peter Feltoti

[apod]

2024 February 22

A View Toward M106 Image Credit & Copyright: Kyunghoon Lim

Explanation: Big, bright, beautiful spiral, Messier 106 dominates this cosmic vista. The nearly two degree wide telescopic field of view looks toward the well-trained constellation Canes Venatici, near the handle of the Big Dipper. Also known as NGC 4258, M106 is about 80,000 light-years across and 23.5 million light-years away, the largest member of the Canes II galaxy group. For a far far away galaxy, the distance to M106 is well-known in part because it can be directly measured by tracking this galaxy's remarkable maser, or microwave laser emission. Very rare but naturally occurring, the maser emission is produced by water molecules in molecular clouds orbiting its active galactic nucleus. Another prominent spiral galaxy on the scene, viewed nearly edge-on, is NGC 4217 below and right of M106. The distance to NGC 4217 is much less well-known, estimated to be about 60 million light-years, but the bright spiky stars are in the foreground, well inside our own Milky Way galaxy.

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A View Toward M106 via NASA https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200501.html

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A View Toward M106 via /r/ScienceImages http://bit.ly/2WPP3HA

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"A View Toward M106" Is the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day of today, May 01, 2020

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A View Toward M106 Astronomy Pic of the Day :by NASA https://ift.tt/2VSFy8D

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A View Toward M106 via NASA https://ift.tt/2VSFy8D

[michaelgabrill]

A View Toward M106 via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2Y3W18C

[world-beauty]

The View Toward M106

Credits: Fabian Neyer

[apod]

2020 May 1

A View Toward M106 Image Credit & Copyright: Joonhwa Lee

Explanation: Big, bright, beautiful spiral, Messier 106 dominates this cosmic vista. The nearly two degree wide telescopic field of view looks toward the well-trained constellation Canes Venatici, near the handle of the Big Dipper. Also known as NGC 4258, M106 is about 80,000 light-years across and 23.5 million light-years away, the largest member of the Canes II galaxy group. For a far far away galaxy, the distance to M106 is well-known in part because it can be directly measured by tracking this galaxy's remarkable maser, or microwave laser emission. Very rare but naturally occurring, the maser emission is produced by water molecules in molecular clouds orbiting its active galactic nucleus. Another prominent spiral galaxy on the scene, viewed nearly edge-on, is NGC 4217 below and right of M106. The distance to NGC 4217 is much less well-known, estimated to be about 60 million light-years, but the bright spiky stars are in the foreground, well inside our own Milky Way galaxy. Even the existence of galaxies beyond the Milky Way was questioned 100 years ago in astronomy's Great Debate.

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A View Toward M106 via NASA https://ift.tt/2VSFy8D

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A View Toward M106